As President Donald Trump celebrates his 100th day in office, a coalition of attorneys general filed their 16th lawsuit against his administration Tuesday. The latest complaint alleges the president and the U.S. DOGE Service usurped congressional authority when they cut staff and funding at the national community service program AmeriCorps.

What You Need To Know

  • As President Donald Trump celebrates his 100th day in office, a coalition of attorneys general filed their 16th lawsuit against his administration Tuesday

  • The latest complaint alleges the president and the U.S. DOGE Service usurped Congressional authority when they cut staff and funding at the national community service program, AmeriCorps

  • Signed into law while President Bill Clinton was in office, the 31-year-old agency oversees a number of programs and dispatches 200,000 volunteers across the country to work with schoolchildren, veterans and older adults, among other things, according to its website

  • The lawsuit comes less than two weeks after 85% of the agency’s full-time staff of 500 were dismissed as part of the U.S. DOGE Service’s efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in federal government

“We say to President Trump on his 100th day in office, we’ll see you in court. Again,” California Attorney General Rob Bonta said during a news conference announcing the latest lawsuit filed on behalf of 23 attorneys general. “First, Trump came for USAID, then the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Department of Education and more — and now this.”

Signed into law while President Bill Clinton was in office, the 31-year-old AmeriCorps agency oversees a number of programs and dispatches 200,000 volunteers across the country to work with schoolchildren, veterans and older adults, among other things, according to its website.

The lawsuit comes less than two weeks after 85% of the agency’s full-time staff of 500 were dismissed as part of the U.S. DOGE Service’s efforts to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in federal government. The Trump administration also announced it planned to cut $400 million in grant funding from the agency’s operating budget of roughly $1 billion. 

“AmeriCorps embodies the best of America: service, community and compassion," Delaware Attorney General Kathy Jennings said Tuesday. "Gutting it isn’t just cruel and pointless. It’s also illegal. The president cannot unilaterally dismantle it.”

Led by the attorneys general for California, Colorado, Delaware and Maryland, the lawsuit was filed in partnership with the attorneys general for Arizona, Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, the District of Columbia as well as the states of Kentucky and Pennsylvania